As patients strive to manage their own health and illnesses, many wonder how to get a copy of their health data to share with their physicians, load into apps, donate to researchers, link to their genomic data, or have on hand just in case.

Even as medical technology enables some amazing things, the most important breakthroughs in public health could still come from simple technologies that can expand access to care and improve communications, according to a panel of providers and technologists that took the stage with Former President Bill Clinton at theClinton Foundation Health Matters Summit earlier this week.

As healthcare data breaches and and cyberattacks have "reached epidemic proportions," according to the two groups, they'll now work toward better risk mitigation, response and recovery after HIPAA events.

Cloud-based health IT company athenahealth is poised to build an inpatient electronic medical record. The vendor will work with University of Toledo Medical Center to develop an EHR for doctors who work both in a physician practice and in a hospital.

Kaiser Permanente says serious outages this week on its health website serving 10.2 million enrollees have been resolved and weren't caused by a cyberattack, although the portal still didn't appear to be fully accessible to all members as of Thursday afternoon.